Virginia Senate Bill 895

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Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: Introduced on January 4 2025 - 25% progression
Action: 2025-01-22 - Impact statement from TAX (SB895)
Pending: Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [HTML]

Real property tax exemption; surviving spouses of members of the armed forces who died in the line of duty. Authorizes localities by ordinance to provide a total exemption from real property taxes regardless of assessed value beginning in tax years beginning on and after January 1, 2025, for surviving spouses of members of the armed forces who died in the line of duty. Under law effective January 1, 2025, a total exemption is only allowed for such surviving spouses for those dwellings in the locality with assessed values in the most recently ended tax year that are not in excess of the average assessed value for such year of a dwelling situated on property that is zoned as single family residential.

Real property tax; surviving spouses of members of armed forces who died in line of duty.

Sen. Aaron Rouse [D]

Date	Chamber	Action
2025-01-22	Senate	Impact statement from TAX (SB895)
2025-01-04	Senate	Referred to Committee on Finance and Appropriations
2025-01-04	Senate	Prefiled and ordered printed; Offered 01-08-2025 25101300D

Type	Source
Summary	https://lis.virginia.gov/bill-details/20251/SB895
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/bill-details/20251/SB895/text/SB895
Supplement	https://lis.blob.core.windows.net/files/1025667.PDF